Ole Andreas Bachke
Ole Andreas Bachke was the Norwegian jurist and Government Minister.Biography
Bachke was born at Røros in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. He was the eldest son of the local sheriff Halvard Bachke and his wife AnnaSofie Ditlevsen.
He studied for a career in law and achieved his law degree in Christiania in 1852. He then studied abroad for several years. From 1856 he was a trial attorney in Christiania. In 1860 he became secretary for justice affairs at Christiania. In 1864 he was a judge and became a Chief Justice in 1878.
He was president of a diocesan court, before entering the first cabinet of Prime Minister Frederik Stang in 1879.
He became Minister of Justice 1879-1880, member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1880-1881, Minister of Justice 1880-1882, Ministry of Auditing 1882-1884, and acting Prime Minister in 1884.
